The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-12-24
CHRISTMAS.

merry Christmas to you, readers OF The UNION,
one and all. To most of you, We doubt not, it is
a season of unmingled festivity-one Of those
bright spots in human existence which compen-
safes for the toll and perpexty that forms SO large
a norton of the common lot of mankind. We
would that it were thus to all. We would that the
harsh teachings of adversely and the keener pangs
of woe we're banished from the earth for season,
and that the Christmas carol were swelled with
joyous tones from every Preside, undisturbed by
single discordant note. But, alas it is not So
A wise and benefcent Providence has directed
otherwise, and while the earliest rays Of this
mornings light rested upon millions of cheerful
ceuntenances and called up the buoyant and guile
less spirit of youth, summoning to festive delight
thew broke also upon those to whom the delight
Of others is but the remembrance of past that
courted oblivion fails to conceal from the mind and
a torment in that contrast that it presents. Let
MS then, to whom the present season brings naught
Init pleasurable associations and emotions OF de-
light. forget not that it is not so to ALL that while
our hearts are made glad by the uniting OF the
family circle the strengthening of valued ties, and
by the presence of prosperity and abundance
even to super abundant luxury-that there are
others who cannot enjoy the blessings which we
so highly prize. And remembering this, let us
forget not the benevolence of the Supreme Being
to our erring race in the greatest advent ever
known to mankind, which forms the subject OF this
DAVIS festivity. Remembering this, let it guide
us to appropriate reflections and employments.-
And what more so or in better keeping with the
true character of the season than the cultivation
of that yen-born attribute which teaches US to
ameliorate the thorny paths of life by dispensing
to the poor.
We all know that the social existence is full OF
INEQUALITIES and that the blessings of this life are
most unequally distributed-that while some are
overloaded with the most desirable of them others
are almost if not entirely destitute. 1t should be,
It is one of the great objects of the good mans life
to counterfeit this inequality-to induce him who
has enough and to spare to give to him who is
needy And what more appropriate season for the
exercise of benevolence than the present? 1t is
the anniversary of the most superlative act OF
benevolence and good will to mankind that the
world ever knew; and moreover the natal day OF
the most stupendous system of benevolence Tor
mankind that the mind can contemplate-one in
deed which exceeds the powers of finite concep-
ton as eternity outmeasures time.
If these appropriate employments are favorably
considered, objects enough may be found upon
which to bestow them. The ordinary causes which
operate upon large communities to produce pow
erty have been no less at work during the present
year than heretofore. Objects enough are pre-
sented, therefore, for the benevolence of those who
are disposed to contribute of their abundance
Do what you can then to make this happy
Christmas to ALL